6 Facts About Rob Brydon

1. In August 2014, Rob Brydon was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.

2. In 2010 Rob Brydon took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March.

3. In other radio work Rob Brydon sat in for Ken Bruce on BBC Radio 2 for one day only on 25 August 2008.

4. In February 2009, it was announced that Rob Brydon would be one of three people to replace Lyttelton as chairman of the 51st series of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

5. In 2010 Rob Brydon starred alongside Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom's partially improvised BBC Two sitcom series The Trip, in which both actors played fictionalized versions of their public personas.

6. In 1994 and 1995 Rob Brydon appeared in numerous episodes of the original Radio Wales version of the cult comedy Satellite City with Boyd Clack.